Joy Faith Wellness
Events
Please join us for any of these events, all supporting a deepening into self through movement, spirituality, and creativity.
Fall 2025
Authentic Movement Group:
Trusting Self
Authentic Movement is a place where you can practice just being yourself- a rare opportunity in this busy, modern world.
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No experience needed, just a curiosity and a willingness to turn within.
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Move with your eyes closed, tracking what is happening in your body. Later, practice intentionally speaking your experience as you discover, liberate, and integrate the voice (and wisdom) of your unconscious.
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Dates TDB.
Summer 2025
Nature Therapy Workshop:
A Light Heart
Step out into the beauty of nature in the Berkshire Hills. As a small group, we'll take a moderate hike, pause in nature for mindful practice of forest bathing, and finish with a nature-based ritual to affirm your inner truth.
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Dates TBD.
Winter 2025
Expressive Arts, Somatics, and Herbal Wellness Retreat:
Deep Nourishment
A sweet 3-night retreat in Western MA on the property of Sweet Birch Herbals- surrounded by a running river, nature trails, herb gardens, and gentle horses.
Retreat time will include free time for yourself to do as you please, and guided activities including gentle and restorative yoga, Shake Your Soul® dance, guided hiking, vision board making, guided meditation, Ghee making and essential oil infusions, as well as guided reflection and conversation for personal growth.
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Healthy meals include lots of organic fruits and vegetables, local meats, and great quality chocolate!
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Fall 2024
Gathering at The Wild Edge of Belonging:
Virtual Grief Support hosted by Balanced Life Movement
This therapeutic group provides a structured, safe, and compassionate space where participants can explore deep emotional themes, such as grief, loss, and the desire for connection, through a blend of expressive arts and verbal reflection.
The group aims to create a community of support, using expressive arts as a vehicle for self-discovery, healing, and transformation. Each session will integrate diverse art forms—including movement, visual arts, writing, and sound—to allow members to access and process complex emotions.
Led by Board Certified Dance/Movement Therapists / Creative Arts Therapists from the therapy center, Balanced Life Movement based in NY.
Fall 2024
In-Person Ketamine and Expressive Arts Retreat:
A Joyful Heart
Trauma, anxiety, and depression steal joy and aliveness. They steal our ability to feel safe enough to play.
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Come join us in a beautiful natural setting and nourish your birthright of delight and wonderment.
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Supported by nature therapy, ketamine therapy, and expressive arts therapy, come and invite a deeper breath and inquire into your own innate wholeness.
Spring 2024
Authentic Movement Group:
Deep Permission
Authentic movement can build significant mindfulness, presence, connection and trust. It's an intuitive movement practice often also described as mystical and relational. Moving in this way allows your whole self to be expressed, heard, and integrated.
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Practicing in a closed weekly container will support you to make meaningful connections with others while you have a dedicated space for self-care and gentle self-discovery.
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This practice will honor who you are, just as your are. No experience required. Come join us.
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Sold Out
Spring 2024
Expressive Arts Virtual Group:
Playful Self
In this group you'll explore the power of making more space and freedom to be yourself.
Using art, sound, movement, and writing, we'll welcome the power of playfulness, curiosity, spontaneity, and fun, leaning from your comfort zone to your aliveness zone.
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This is about expression, not product. Call up your inner child, genius, or muse and let's have some fun.
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March 2024
Authentic Movement Workshop:
Diving Inward
Authentic movement can build significant mindfulness, presence, connection and trust. It's an intuitive movement practice often also described as mystical and relational. Moving in this way allows your whole self to be expressed, heard, and integrated.
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This one-day workshop offers a simple but deep introduction (or dive) into this healing practice.
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This practice will honor who you are, just as your are. No experience required. Come join us.
September 2023
Virtual Authentic Movement Group Series:
Space for Self
Authentic movement can build significant mindfulness, presence, connection and trust. It's an intuitive movement mindfulness practice, often also described as mystical and relational. Moving in this way allows your whole self to be expressed, heard, and integrated.
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Allow this 3-part movement mindfulness group to support you in your developing self-acceptance. Join from the safety and comfort of your home.
This practice will honor who you are, just as your are. No experience required. Come join us.
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November 2023
Empowered Romance:
Group for Single Women
Hosted by Balanced Life Movement, this group is for single women who want to end disastrous dating and find satisfaction in romance. This group offers a playful, inquisitive, and accountable space to connect with other women and move into empowerment.
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https://balancedlifemovement.com/therapy/empoweredwomenfindinglove
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October 2023
Ketamine and Expressive Arts Virtual Retreat:
Deep Inner Journey
Hosted by Balanced Life Movement, and in partnership with Journey Clinical, this virtual retreat offers significant financial savings while offering the deep support of group work.
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Ketamine can create a sense of wellbeing and wholeness. It can stimulate new growth in the brain, allowing you to form new supportive ways of living in the world.
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​https://balancedlifemovement.com/ketamine-assisted-psychotherapy
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Take Up Space:
Virtual Therapeutic Arts Group with Balanced Life Movement (BLooM)
Join us this Spring 2023 for an 8-week group workshop to enhance your relationship with your body through dance & movement, learn the wheel of emotions, improve emotional awareness and regulation, and foster healthy communication with like-minded others.
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Embody Joy:
Virtual Therapeutic Arts Group with Balanced Life Movement (BLooM)
Join us this New Year 2023 to banish the blues and cultivate gratitude. Every Friday, we will meet live on Zoom to EMBODY our highest self --you know, the one that may feel depressed or anxious right now but really yearns to make a change. Stuck is not an option.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cl1aKJWgTtq/?igshid=YzFkMDk4Zjk%3D
